THE HANDMAIDS TALE ATWOOD BIO
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MARGARET ATWOOD
- born Ottowa, canada
- 1961 published first book
- degrees harvard etc
- mid 1980s wrote tht whilst in WEST BERLIN
- PUBLISHED 1985 AND BECAME QUICK BETSTSELLER written after election of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher =period of conservative revival in west-fueld by organsied relig conservative critics who perceived excess of secual revolution in 60s and 70s
- height of relig right=increase fem fears -recent gains may be reversed
- atwood wanted to explore conseunces of relig reveival-Gilead group…
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